 | All those mornings . . . at the Post The 20th Century in Sports from Famed Washington Post Columnist Shirley Povich by Shirley Povich
Buy new: $12.80 / Used from: $0.01 Appointed sports editor of the Washington Post at 21, Povich still worked there at age 92. Long out of print, we are grateful his work is available again.
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 | Baseball As I Knew It by Fred Lieb
Buy used from: $4.93 Another reporter who covered sports for 70+ years. His memoir is full of stories from a bygone era. Baseball history fans will enjoy this book.
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 | Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith by Gary Smith
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.00 Memorable pieces on the effects of sports off the playing field. Includes the article which inspired the movie "Radio".
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| BYLINE: SI BURICK: A Half Century in the Press Box. by Si Burick.
Buy used from: $100.00 |
| Super Stars of Baseball: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Laughs, Their Laments
Buy used from: $5.41 |
| The New York Mets Twenty-Five Years of Baseball Magic by Jack Lang
Buy used from: $2.24 |
 | 1947: When All Hell Broke Loose In Baseball (Da Capo Paperback) by Red Barber
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $1.99 Branch Rickey convinced Barber (a southerner) to stay with the Dodgers in 1947. The broadcaster also wrote Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat, a memoir (with Robert Creamer).
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 | Sports Illusion, Sports Reality: A Reporter's View of Sports, Journalism, and Society by Leonard Koppett
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $1.67 Author of The Thinking Man's Guide to Baseball and several other books.
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| Beyond the Sixth Game by Peter Gammons
Buy used from: $3.32 Boston Red Sox 1975-1985.
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| In the Corner: Great Boxing Trainers Talk About Their Art by Dave Anderson
Buy used from: $4.20 |
 | The Long Season by Jim Brosnan
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $11.00 Pitcher Brosnan penned two classics while an active player. The Long Season chronicles 1959. Pennant Race is a diary of the 1961 Cincinnati Reds' quest for the National League title.
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 | Ty Cobb (Sport in American Life) by Charles C. Alexander
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $10.00 Alexander's baseball biographies (also John McGraw, Rogers Hornsby) are in-depth, well written, and honest.
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 | Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer by Jerry Kramer
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.41 Dick Schaap collaborated with Jerry Kramer on his diary of the 1967 season, published in 1968. Farewell to Football (1969) and Distant Replay (1987) followed.
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 | 100 Greatest Moments in Olympic History by Bud Greenspan
Buy used from: $0.56 |
| Idols of the Game: A Sporting History of the American Century by Robert Lipsyte
Buy used from: $0.39 |
 | Raw Recruits by Alexander Wolff
Buy used from: $0.01 Co-authors Wolff and Ketayian published this expose of college basketball recruiting in 1990. Ketayian also wrote Money Players (NBA), Catfish, Ditka.
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 | Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure by Alexander Wolff
Buy used from: $2.95 Sports Illustrated reporter and basketball aficionado Wolff traveled through 4 continents to discover the game's impact. His tales from that journey make you think about the value of sport to the world's people. Also Hoops Nation.
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| The NFL Century: The Complete Story of the National Football League, 1920-2000
Buy used from: $22.99 Boston Globe columnist covered the Patriots for many years. He excelled in writing about football.
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 | The Four Seasons by Bob Ryan
Buy used from: $12.92 Boston/New England teams: 1967 Red Sox, 1972 Bruins, 1986 Celtics, 1996 Patriots.
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 | Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything by Charles P. Pierce
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $0.01 Insights on Brady as leader.
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 | Hold On, Honey, I'll Take You to the Hospital at Halftime: Confessions of a TV Sports Junkie by Norman Chad
Buy new: $9.90 / Used from: $0.01 TV sports critic makes us laugh at ourselves.
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| THE EDWIN POPE COLLECTION by Edwin (Intro by James Michener) Pope
Buy used from: $11.00 |
 | At the Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt by Leigh Montville
Buy used from: $0.01 Also Ted Williams, The Big Bam (Babe Ruth).
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 | The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation by Sally Jenkins
Buy used from: $8.30 1912 Army vs Carlisle game changed football. Jenkins cowrote No Finish Line with Marla Runyan, and two titles with Lance Armstrong.
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| They Shoot Coaches, Don't They?: UCLA and the Ncaa Since John Wooden by Mark Heisler
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 | The Bases Were Loaded (and So Was I): Up Close and Personal with the Greatest Names in Sports by Tom Callahan
Buy used from: $11.71 Funny, insightful observations and anecdotes. Also Johnny U., In Search of Tiger.
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 | Ever Green The Boston Celtics: A History in the Words of Their Players, Coaches, Fans and Foes, from 1946 to the Present by Dan Shaughnessy
Buy used from: $0.87 Like Bob Ryan, Shaughnessy doesn't stray far from Boston. He has written several books on the Red Sox.
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 | Twilight of the Long-ball Gods: Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball by John Schulian
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.41 Former Chicago Sun-Times and Sports Illustrated reporter distills the core of the game. Wonderful writing.
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 | Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig
Buy new: $19.67 / Used from: $1.44 Inside the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1947 season. Also Luckiest Man (Lou Gehrig).
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 | Dispatches from the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler
Buy used from: $3.83 Canadian novelist wrote eloquent essays on hockey, fishing, baseball, et al.
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 | My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money, And The Sporting Life by William Nack
Buy new: $16.38 / Used from: $1.50 Nack's pieces reveal famous and lesser known athletes. He shows the reader another side of Secretariat, Sonny Liston, Rocky Marciano, etc.
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| Roy Campanella (Most valuable player series) by Dick Young
Buy used from: $6.87 When will an enterprising publisher bring us a collection of Dick Young's columns in book form? He was one of the best of his era, yet his work is unavailable. Why?
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